Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	GR/N29037/01
Title:	MTP: MSC IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC)
Principal Investigator:	Henty, Dr D
Other Investigators:	Darling, Dr G
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:	AWE Met Office NEC Oracle Corporation Rolls-Royce Plc (UK) University of Edinburgh
Department:	Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
Organisation:	University of Edinburgh
Scheme:	MTP
Starts:	15 August 2001	Ends:	31 March 2005	Value (£):	438,993
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Parallel Computing
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Information Technologies
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This proposal is to extend an existing postgraduate Diploma in HPC to MSc level and to provide student stipends. Such a course would help to address the concerns of the panel for the 1999 EPSRC Theme Day in Applications of HPC, that the largest obstacle to the widespread use of HPC is the difficulty for a non-specialist to parallelise code , by providing advanced training in HPC techniques and applications. The MSc will focus on linking fundamental concepts in computer science, numerical analysis and computational science, fulfilling the recommendation of the panel that EPSRC should consider mechanisms ... to encourage collaboration between computer scientists and applications scientists . The training will provide the key expertise required to exploit the Computational Grid. Although the UK has international standing in research areas using HPC, the current provision for HPC training in the UK is mainly in the form of short 1-2 day courses for existing users of HPC facilities. The proposed MSc would provide an opportunity to widen access to HPC techniques across the whole range of EPSRC areas of science. In addition, the MSc would take advantage of EPCC's extensive links with industry to ensure that the curriculum is relevant to the needs of potential employers and to attract fee-paying commercial students. The MSc would be modular in design, allowing for both full-time and part-time learning. Courses will be converted to an on-line form to enable distance-learning, building on extensive EPCC expertise in this area. Compulsory modules will ensure a key core of knowledge, and optional modules will give students the opportunity to extend this knowledge in specific applications areas. Extensive project work will ensure that they are able to apply the knowledge learned on the course to real problems, and a substantial dissertation will develop their research and presentation skills. Graduates would be ideally positioned for work in the field of applied computing in both academia and industr
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